I got the recomendation on the tesdisk site, no I don’t remember if they work on Linuxįilesystem, but you need a running Windows (or a virtualized one if you Once I used commercial software to recover an NTFS partition that hadĪnd the result was quite good. Image (and free space somewhere else to copy the results). You need one disk or partition bigger than the original to make the You can try as many times you need/want - but of course, Of the recovery proposals, and if that turns out no good, try another onĪ new image. It is possible, IIRC, to make an image of the damaged diskĪnd work on the image leaving the original intact. Count yourīlessings… If it works, it is better than photorec, you get names and I have used it several times, and I was never fully happy. > pictures, documents) and count myself lucky that I got that much back? > partition from this? Or should I just filter my files (mp3’s, movies, > Have you any experience with testdisk successfully recovering a I will post a screen shot when I am back home but I am a little lost. Is there any order in which it displays these findings? The disk has a long history so I presume it’s most of my previous installations it’s finding. A normal search did not find what I wanted but a deep search brought up to much! I think, I am not near the pc at the moment, it found about 12 different things. I formatted the drive from Windows and it had not even shown up as 1% complete when I realised my mistake and stopped the process. This leads me to belief that at least part of the drive is fine. I let photorec rip on the drive and 12 hours later I had several thousand files. I have not lost anything critical, thankfully, but I would now like to see if I can do a recovery using testdisk and photorec. The result is that I now accidentally partly formatted my openSUSE 12.2 hard drive >:( Two days ago I broke one of my own rules.
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